Sandyknowes Blog

Living beside the busiest roundabout in Northern Ireland gives plenty of opportunity for watching the world go by. Sandyknowes Blog is the personal blog of Niall Lockhart (minister of Ballyhenry). Pull in and have a read…

This Sunday at 11am we host our annual 'CE Sunday'. This service gives an opportunity for the children and young people of our Junior Christian Endeavour to lead the service with Bible readings, prayers, songs and much much more. This also gives us a real opportunity to welcome friends from our local community. Whether you are always with us or thinking of visiting be assured of a warm welcome. The service will be in an 'all age' format (supervised creche will run during the service).

This Sunday morning we pick up the next part of our journey through John's Gospel. We're reading John 5:1 - 8:11 in preparation, and focusing in on chapter 5 vs 1-30 (The healing at the pool and a dispute over Jesus' authority.)

Watch out also for the Feeding of the 5000+ in our children's talk.

As usual our service contains a full children's provision, alongside a supervised creche and teenage Bible Class. 

This Sunday we meet at 11am for our morning service. Aas we continue our journey through John's Gospel our focus passage this week is John 3 vs 1-21. (To get the whole picture read John ch 2 vs 1 - ch 4 vs 54). Watch out this week for Nicodemus and how 'by night' this influential and respected religious leader came to speak with Jesus.

In our prayers this Sunday we hope to focus in on some of the 'forgotten' aspects of both local and global news rembering the small African country of The Gambia alongside praying for some of those who feel forgotten within our own society.

This Sunday morning we pick up the second part of our series in John's Gospel 'Journey into LIFE.' If you are reading ahead, read John 1 vs 19-51. Our Focus Passage will be John 1 vs 43-51; Jesus calls Philip and Nathanael. Through the course of John 1 we see different characters walk on stage, but by the end of the chapter the spotlight focuses firmly on Jesus - encouraging us to see Him for ourselves.

Morning service includes music with our Praise Group, supervised creche, full children's provision and teenage Bible Class.

This Sunday we meet for our morning service at 11am. This week we start out on a new journey - travelling through John's Gospel. Everyone coming to church this week will get a free copy of John's Gospel, to keep and to use as we go through this seires (which will take us up to Easter). Our morning service this week will also include communion, when we remember Jesus' death, as we share in bread and wine.

We have our full children's provision (including creche) and the Praise Group will be leading our praise.

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